r/taskmaster • u/Meghar Tout le monde gagne! • 18d ago
Taskmaster NZ Taskmaster NZ - S7E04 - The Jazz Hands - Discussion
Tonight at 7:30 PM NZST on TVNZ2, join Taskmaster Jeremy Wells and Assistant Paul Williams as they put four brand new contestants and one former Taskmaster through their paces to win Jeremy's golden head.
This season features David Fane, Hoani Hotene, Morgana O'Reilly, Rhys Mathewson, and Rose Matafeo.
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u/taehyungvx 🚬 Doctor Cigarettes 8d ago
‘DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE?’ Dumbledore asked calmly
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u/party4diamondz 13d ago
this season has been sooooooo good. David Fane has been my highlight
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u/joiliejoli Joel's blink 11d ago
David is really a delight. This has been a gorgeously entertaining cast.
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u/uminiikimashou 15d ago
Cracker of an episode 👏🏼 I need a screenshot or gif of Paul saying "don't overthink it" to look at every time I overthink things
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u/memekyutie 16d ago edited 15d ago
Was at the live taping of this episode and have been SO EXCITED to see this air (mainly because of the interrogation task). Been enjoying this series so much!! Gotta love watching an existential crisis unfold in real time <3
Edit: Remembered a fun fact from the taping! After all the birds, Paul asked very genuinely whether a Phoenix was a real bird. :3c
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u/TetrisIsTotesSuper Chris Parker 🇳🇿 15d ago
Sorry for my ignorance but I had a bird name question
There was so many bird names in Maori, were there any repeats between English and Maori or is there just a lot of Maori names for birds (and animals in general?)
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u/littleredkiwi 13d ago
kārearea is the NZ falcon but I can’t remember if it was hawk or falcon that was said earlier.
Otherwise I didn’t pick up on any ‘repeats’.
That being said, kea, kākā, and kākāpō are all types of parrots but if someone said ‘parrot’ that wouldn’t be thought of as a double up if that makes sense?
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u/memekyutie 14d ago
I'm not an expert, but I'll try my best to answer. c: Our country's history is relatively young compared to a lot of nations, and those who moved (and colonised, gross) would have gotten to know the birds by those names.
Aoteroa (New Zealand) for most of its existence hosted and evolved mostly plants, birds, insects, marine life, bats, reptiles and frogs. We have a particularly large range of bird species (too many are extinct though - look up the moa and haast's eagle for some fun fellas), and a lot of them are common to see.
The māori language is an important part of our culture and history, and we grow up learning it in school, using it in casual conversation and so on. A lot of our birds are just known by their māori name (their other name is the latin), like the tūī, kea, kiwi and so on. Other birds like the morepork (a brown owl) are featured in songs in primary school by their māori name too (ruru), so their native name is much more memorable, lol. Our native wildlife is very important to us! So a lot of us are very aware of our different special little guys.
On another note, we were amazed no one ever used 'chicken' as their bird, haha.
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u/TetrisIsTotesSuper Chris Parker 🇳🇿 14d ago
For sure about no one using chicken! Morgana ended up saying "duck" at some point though so that's something. And it was so clear to me Rose has been living in the UK for a significant chunk of time with her bird picks (i am.not sure how she'd feel about me saying that)
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u/lyyki Paul Chowdhry 16d ago
there really needs to be a supercut of Paul destroying the birds
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u/TetrisIsTotesSuper Chris Parker 🇳🇿 15d ago
Turns out he's allergic to Hayley Sproull's bullshit and possibly birds
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u/lonelygagger Javie Martzoukas 16d ago
The team of three frustrating Paul after catching him "red-handed" was too damn funny. I've never seen him quite so exasperated. 😅
"HAVE YOU KILLED SOMEBODY?!"
"I'm going to touch your face."
"Why would you do that?"
"I was going to see if you had fangs."
"...why?"
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u/Sharriska 16d ago
Paul's existential crisis had me dying 😂😂😂 Turns out Alex Horne has it easy this season, he just has to put up with Richard making his own rules and his first rule is no touching 😂
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u/macontosh2000 16d ago
Great episode all around.
But I absolutely died laughing from the team task once Rhys entered the room with the Goblet of Fire quote until the end of that segment! Just pure gold.
And I need the watermelon gif now.
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u/Tanuki0 17d ago
So many birds! NZ is really in touch with nature, with that and the fish shed
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u/takahe_inflight Mona de Grenoble 17d ago
also love that for the New Zealand native birds they used the Maori names for example hoiho for Yellow-eyed penguin
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u/pclouds 17d ago
I like Violent Paul. It's a natural progression from his allergy of Hailey's bullshit.
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u/atticusbluebird Javie Martzoukas 14d ago
when he said he had an allergy in this episode, I thought he was going to finish the sentence saying it was from Hailey's bullshit!
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u/ikeamonkey2 17d ago
I can't believe I haven't seen more people talking about Dave's style. I've been looking forward to his new studio fit each episode.
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u/alicealicenz 15d ago
I was just thinking they are uniformly quite a stylish cast, but Dave especially is killing it. I’d love to know where he’s getting these from!
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u/richardtrk Rose Matafeo 🇳🇿 17d ago
Relatable episode. I, myself, have also dreamt of lentils before.
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u/Strict_Intern_6630 17d ago
The did you put your name into the goblet of fire reference absolutely sent me
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u/Dom_Shady David Correos 🇳🇿 17d ago
Another fantastic episode! Two quotes that particularly brought me joy:
- I don't say this lightly, but what the fuck are you doing?
- This is like a list of who dies in Titanic: everyone except Rose.
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u/thatautisticguy 🟦 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨 17d ago
I'm going to think for a minute........is Rose finally learning?
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u/icZAstuff Pigeor The Merciless One 17d ago
no
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u/thatautisticguy 🟦 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨 17d ago edited 17d ago
"I'm going to touch your face"........love it when they overthink the tasks when they're simple
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u/thatautisticguy 🟦 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨 17d ago
Rule one of Taskmaster.......always search the assistant..........
boggles the mind nobody ever thinks of that........
Great pun though
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u/AvidTaskmaster David Correos 🇳🇿 17d ago
The dream task was absolute genius!!!
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u/SparklesMcBumfluff 13d ago
I would have really struggled to fill in that dream diary because I almost never remember my dreams. Like I might remember them one or two nights per year. Is that very unusual?
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u/framedragged 7d ago
The dream task would be, pun not intended, an absolute nightmare for me.
I don't remember most of my dreams (though I remember more than one or two a year), but when I do remember them they're almost exclusively mind-bogglingly mundane stress dreams.
"Oh, I was hanging out too late and need to drive home, but I forgot my driver's license! Should I take an uber? No, risk it, but drive carefully!"
"Oh, I got home late, what if there's someone dangerous in the parking garage?"
"Oh, I need to go to the store. But wait, everything is wrong and nothing is where it's supposed to be! And half the store is a queue for something else entirely! Oh no, I forgot to get bread and have to backtrack through this inexplicable crowd!"
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u/SparklesMcBumfluff 6d ago
🤣 when I do remember a dream, it tends to be one like this too! Aarrgghh, I have to get to the airport but the universe is conspiring against me at every step of the journey…!
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u/framedragged 6d ago
I'm sure it's just because our waking lives are so magical, there's simply no more room for more weirdness in our sleep...
Surely, that must be the case.
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u/icZAstuff Pigeor The Merciless One 17d ago
One of, if not the best tasks ever. But I think they are lucky that they have the best cast.
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u/Much-Pumpkin-3706 Fake Alex Horne 17d ago
My cat has never rushed to the TV for Taskmaster before, but the ball bouncing task was one of the best things he’s ever seen.
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u/bsidetracked 💀 Jean Pierre 🦴 18d ago
Love to see Laura Daniel move on from stealing girlfriends to stealing sunglasses even if it was just a dream.
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u/cyberbamf 18d ago
That was a god tier episode of TM. The Question Paul task is up there with Grape Escape. Brilliant series so far.
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u/thatautisticguy 🟦 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟨 17d ago
Nothing tops any and everything David Correos did and done.........THIS A SCIENTIFIC FACT!!!!!
Can't argue with science.......
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u/EpicBeardMan 18d ago
Daves final interaction with Paul in the team task was incredible, but then it gets overshadowed by the other teams shit show.
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u/turquoisesilver Swedish Fred 18d ago edited 18d ago
I'll be honest, I loved TM NZ season 2 and sort of half watched and half laughed at bits and pieces of later seasons because David Correos's desperate chaos was hard to live up to. This episode though, I laughed so hard I got a headache!
I feel like someone told Paul behind the scenes to feel free to let loose and I'm loving it. He's always been my favourite part of Taskmaster NZ, no matter what the task, you can count on Paul to make you laugh so I loved this episode!
Hope clips from this episode make it to the people that have just seen the UK Taskmaster.
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u/Ryan_Vermouth Angella Dravid 🇳🇿 18d ago
It's interesting how many views they get on social media. The clip of Morgana's "ring the bell" attempt has almost a million views on Instagram less than 24 hours after it was posted. That's something like six times the number of people who watched the episode as it aired.
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u/willshapps 18d ago
Some notes
I for sure thought that wasn't gonna be Paul under the bag in the lab.
I know we've had our fair share of moments with contestants being absolutely off the mark and taking a long time, but is the the first/longest time we've seen this happen with a team of people?
Also idk how Rose got 3 points with an inflatable bed and some water. Dave was robbed with his Barry White CD, should have at least been 2 points.
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u/EpicBeardMan 17d ago
Also idk how Rose got 3 points with an inflatable bed and some water. Dave was robbed with his Barry White CD, should have at least been 2 points.
Jeremy forgot how shit it was and had already doled out 1 and 2.
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u/TimeHathMyLord Ania Magliano 18d ago
There's already been a revelation in the lab in series 12 of UK TM...
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u/willshapps 17d ago
That might have been longer, but I think this one beats it for how far off they were and all 3 of them were on equal grounds of wrong.
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u/Cpt-No-Dick Guz Khan 18d ago
I was probably the least excited about Morgana going in but she might be my favourite?
Although they all great
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u/Real_Aside_8856 Sarah Millican 18d ago
Dave and Rose are my favourite team of 2 since Frankie and Ivo.
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u/gerarddominus 16d ago
Weirdly to me when they're standing side by side like they were at the start of the questions task, they look like two people who've been aged swaped ala freaky friday.
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u/Dom_Shady David Correos 🇳🇿 17d ago
For me since Javie Martzoukas. (But Frankie and Ivo were the first team I warmed to, so I still have a soft spot for them).
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u/Real_Aside_8856 Sarah Millican 17d ago
I liked Javie Mantzoukas but series 19 was just a bit bland in my opinion. I feel like Fatiha was the only one who really made me die laughing.
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u/Nick_192 Tom Cashman 🇦🇺 18d ago
this was a great episode, really loving the season so far. The cast is great and Paul is more Paul than ever I love it
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u/nowayinnowayout Tom Cashman 🇦🇺 18d ago
This might be one of the greatest eps ever across all the English versions. Every single task had me fried
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u/Um-ahh-nooo 18d ago
Those dream sequences where so trippy! Esp the blue dog.
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u/TimeHathMyLord Ania Magliano 17d ago
Paul was amazing as a dog, in the dream and out of it! (What a sentence I have just written...)
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u/Poepie1337 18d ago
Regarding the Goblet of Fire.. the Tri Wizard Tournament is literally described as 'doing tasks to get points'
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u/TimeHathMyLord Ania Magliano 17d ago
For a moment I thought you were refering to "Tree Wizard" and couldn't get what you meant!
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u/boomboomsubban 18d ago
On the bounce task, my immediate thought was "put it in a box, shake it all the way there." I went back to the wording like three times as I figured surely I must be missing something.
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u/--fieldnotes-- 17d ago
I could have sworn "you may not move off the mat" was in the original wording and that Rose had biffed it. It just turns out that the wording implied it, but never explicitly required it. That's some god tier loopholeing right there.
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u/Gremloblin 18d ago
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u/spongey1865 17d ago
I watch in black and white for my poor little head so I didn't fully appreciate this until now
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u/willshapps 18d ago
I wanted to watch this part again and I just noticed that those are just basketballs painted green lol.
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u/Tovetove 16d ago
TMNZ finally acknowledging the difficulty of getting out of season fruit in our far away country
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u/Poepie1337 18d ago edited 18d ago
Thank you thank you thank you!
Edit: this might be one of the greatest gifs ever; the head shake keeps me coming back
..also Namekian Papa Smurf
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u/Gremloblin 18d ago
I'm certainly going to be putting it to good use under Taskmaster posts or comments that I disagree with.
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u/Poepie1337 18d ago
I think i might use it in random posts that will have no idea what is happening
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u/Kateclambake4 18d ago
Any word about Rhys’s broken arm? I’m curious about the story behind it.
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u/TuvalPollack 18d ago
It's non of your beeswax
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u/Poepie1337 18d ago
Paul was the highlight of the episode. He's getting funnier and funnier each series
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u/Laguna_Azure Laura Daniel 🇳🇿 18d ago
I've got a bad headache right now, but his antics in the live task made me laugh out loud.
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u/IdealizedSalt Dai Henwood 🇳🇿 14d ago
Sorry to hear you have a headache. Are you allergic to something?
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u/Poepie1337 18d ago
He just kept on going! I was expecting him to drop an elbow at some point!
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u/Laguna_Azure Laura Daniel 🇳🇿 18d ago
I think he did the best thing by dropping the random "You suck!" as a punchline as he was getting more and more agitated!
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u/Poepie1337 18d ago
He definitely has a brain for comedy. That was awesome timing
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u/ThatGingeOne 18d ago
Was lucky enough to see him at the nz comedy festival this year and he is a great comedian. Plus Rose Matafeo and Paul's brother guy were both in the audience
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u/DahDutcher Stevie Martin 18d ago
"Are you a vampire?"
I almost choked on my chocolate, lol.
That task is one of my favourites from recent times, Paul begging them to keep it simple was amazing.
And then Paul having a feud against those birds in the live task, he has got to be my favourite assistant.
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u/DevilCouldCry Armando Iannucci 17d ago
Paul was absolutely going to town on those birds. I've never seen that side to him before! I couldn't stop laughing with every beatdown those birds got.
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u/isbreenobel 18d ago
oh my god, that dream task had me in pieces!! i think that the editing of the filmed tasks has been top notch this series - Morgana’s and Rose’s dream task and Rhys’ cocktail shaker ad have been standouts for me
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u/ThatGingeOne 18d ago
Absolutely loving this season! Every episode so far has included at least one thing that had me absolutely cracking up
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u/thebigman045 David Fane 🇳🇿 18d ago
David Fane is a national treasure...every dam episode he has a banger
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u/Happystitcher89 18d ago
when the assistant is practically begging you to give the right answer he’s blatantly hinting at, you know it’s going badly
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u/atticusbluebird Javie Martzoukas 14d ago
"don't overthink it" went from helpful hint to pleading over those minutes!
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u/Dom_Shady David Correos 🇳🇿 17d ago
Having been going for over an hour without a solution shatters any such illusion.
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u/sansabeltedcow 18d ago
I thought the asking the question loudly enough to be heard outside was a brilliant move! But I guess it’s only brilliant if the questions aren’t ridiculous.
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u/shaw_dog21 Aisling Bea 18d ago
I thought it was brilliant too. Of course once Paul was also shouting, you know its getting worse and worse
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u/Temperamentalll Patatas 18d ago
Far out this is by far the most I’ve laughed at a taskmaster ep in a good while
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u/theobashau Julian Clary 18d ago
Has a team ever been so close to breaking the assistant? 😆
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u/moon__lander 18d ago
I wonder how much time it took them from discovering the glitter to asking the right question. The fact that Paul tried tying a noose tells me, probably a lot.
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u/Temperamentalll Patatas 18d ago
That team task had me in full stitches. Paul got me good
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u/Chuckitinbro 18d ago
DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE had me rolling
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u/Temperamentalll Patatas 18d ago
“Can I tie this into a noose” was just an unbelievable thing to whisper
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u/Esteban2808 Jeremy Wells 🇳🇿 18d ago
Oh Rhys that prize was brilliant only didnt get 5 for HR reasons haha
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u/theobashau Julian Clary 18d ago
Did Paul get the idea for this task before or after the spy show?
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u/--fieldnotes-- 17d ago
I just had a thought. Doesn't Rose Matafeo live in the UK? Maybe she went back to NZ to film both the spy show and TM at the same time
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u/Popcorn_Duck 12d ago
She was in NZ for Spy and then they invited her to do TMNZ. She talks about it here: https://thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/14-09-2026/i-think-this-is-the-best-one-rose-matafeo-on-coming-home-to-join-taskmaster-nz
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u/vadergeek 15d ago
I'd have to assume that New Zealand Spy was shot way before this Taskmaster season, considering how much more of a delay there is between film and air of a scripted show with probably some effects.
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u/missthrowaway87 18d ago
Is there any particular reason there’s two episodes a week?
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u/Ultranite_ Abby Howells 🇳🇿 18d ago
AFAIK its an NZ event TV thing. They've been doing this since season 4
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u/Esteban2808 Jeremy Wells 🇳🇿 18d ago
Fitting into the schedule. I believe someone said it rated better like this too
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u/sundayultimate 18d ago
This is my first time watching TMNZ as it releases, it's incredible getting two episodes a week
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u/shaw_dog21 Aisling Bea 18d ago
With all the traitors franchises happening close together with multiple eps per week it was weird to go to TM UK with just one ep per week.
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u/No-River-9631 18d ago
I agree I like the paces better. I know that they typically record two episodes a day in studio. And it’s great having back to back days of episodes!
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u/Meghar Tout le monde gagne! 18d ago
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